Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 903 organizations whose IRS filings report $502,390,491 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($133,639,377). 564 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8B
- Funders on record
- 903
- Grants received
- $502M
- Net assets
- $5.6B
What Trustees of Boston College does
Mission
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the pursuit of a just society through its own accomplishments, the work of its faculty and staff, and the achievements of its graduates. It seeks both to advance its place among the nation's finest universities and to bring to the company of its distinguished peers and to contemporary society the richness of the catholic intellectual ideal of a mutually illuminating relationship between religious faith and free intellectual inquiry. Boston college draws inspiration for its academic and societal mission from its distinctive religious tradition. As a catholic and jesuit university, it is rooted in a world view that encounters god in all creation and through all human activity, especially in the search for truth in every discipline, in the desire to learn, and in the call to live justly together. In this spirit, the university regards the contribution of different religious traditions and value systems as essential to the fullness of its intellectual life…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - includes expenditures to provide coursework for students and to provide financial aid in the form of scholarships and fellowships. Enrollments were 15,474 and the number of degrees conferred was 4,500.
$697,940,637 spentof which $295,519,345 as grants$884,309,007 earned by the program54% of program spendingAuxiliary services - includes expenditures for the self-supporting activities of the university such as the operations of 36 residence halls, 16 dining facilities, 31 ncaa division I athletic teams, bookstore and health services.
$264,623,653 spent$218,839,520 earned by the program20% of program spendingStudent services and academic support - includes activities of which the primary purpose is to contribute to the students' emotional and physical well-being and to his/her intellectual, cultural, and social development. Operated 9 university library facilities containing over 3.400 million volumes, over 205 thousand serial titles serving the university and surrounding community.
$249,223,042 spent19% of program spendingOther program services expenditures for research, public service and other miscellaneous program revenues and expenses.
$82,643,605 spentof which $7,233,081 as grants$41,027,172 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,294,430,937.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.2B to $6.3B (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
John F Fish
Trustee - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 202 funders to 381 funders, grant income rose $22M → $65M.
93 of 903 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $345M from 3 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Atlantic Coast Conference). These are real filings, and they are not money TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 903 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 28% · 2019 32% · 2020 43% · 2021 25% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
46% of TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 43 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $402.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$174.9M
- National Science Foundation$85.3M
- Department of Defense$52.3M
- Department of Education$48.3M
- Social Security Administration$18.0M
- Department of Energy$13.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Boston College Alumni Association LLC · disregarded
- Boston College Ireland Limited · exempt
- Hyperplane Opportunities I LP · partnership
- Ravenswood Global Focus Fund LP · partnership
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (19) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE?
- TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 903 organizations whose IRS filings report $502,390,491 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($133,639,377). 564 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 903 organizations giving $502,390,491 in grants to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE, 564 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $133,639,377 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 903 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing